Joe Musgrove

Mark, a lifelong baseball fan, originally supported the San Francisco Giants but became a San Diego Padres fan after the team was created in 1969.

He was frequently Busy, working as a police officer and private investigator in San Diego, California so Diane played catch with a young Musgrove in their front yard.

Musgrove began participating in baseball tournaments at the age of seven, where he was often physically larger than his teammates.

Additionally, Musgrove took pitching lessons with distant relative Dominick Johnson, the son of Major League Baseball (MLB) player Deron Johnson.

Johnson taught Musgrove a series of intense workouts designed in the 1970s by former Philadelphia Phillies trainer Gus Hoefling.

Musgrove attended Grossmont High School in El Cajon, where he emerged as a strong two-way player during his junior season, playing alongside future Pittsburgh Pirates teammate Steven Brault.

Joseph Anthony Musgrove (born December 4, 1992) is an American professional baseball pitcher for the San Diego Padres of Major League Baseball (MLB).

He previously played in MLB for the Houston Astros and Pittsburgh Pirates.

Musgrove was born in El Cajon, California, and began participating in baseball tournaments at the age of seven.

He broke out as a star pitcher and batter during his junior season at Grossmont High School, which he helped take to two state championship appearances.

Musgrove was born on December 4, 1992, in El Cajon, California, to Mark and Diane Musgrove.

He has one brother and two sisters.

As a pitcher in 2010, Musgrove boasted an 11–1 win–loss record with five saves, a 2.07 earned run average (ERA), and 70 strikeouts in 77 2⁄3 innings pitched.

As a batter, he also had a .430 batting average, with nine home runs and 35 runs batted in (RBIs).

The following year, his record fell to 7–5, but Musgrove recorded a 2.40 ERA and 100 strikeouts in 78 2⁄3 innings, while hitting .350 with nine home runs and 32 RBIs.

After being selected by the Blue Jays in the first round of the 2011 MLB Draft, Musgrove chose to forgo his previous commitment to play college baseball for San Diego State, instead signing with the team.

The Toronto Blue Jays selected Musgrove out of high school in the first round, 46th overall, of the 2011 MLB Draft.

At the time, he had committed to play college baseball for San Diego State but chose to forgo that commitment in order to sign with the Blue Jays.

He played eight games with the Rookie Gulf Coast League Blue Jays before being moved to the other Rookie affiliate, the Bluefield Blue Jays, in late August.

In a combined nine games and 24 2⁄3 innings for the two teams, Musgrove posted a 1–1 record in 2011, with a 4.01 ERA and 18 strikeouts.

Partway through the 2012 season, Musgrove was traded to the Astros as part of a massive ten-player swap.

He began with Bluefield in 2012, recording a 1.13 ERA and nine strikeouts in eight innings.

On July 20, 2012, Musgrove was part of a massive 10-player trade between the Blue Jays and the Houston Astros.

He was traded to Houston alongside major league players Francisco Cordero and Ben Francisco, minor league prospects Asher Wojciechowski, David Rollins, and Carlos Pérez, and a player to be named later, in exchange for J. A. Happ, Brandon Lyon, and David Carpenter.

The player to be named later was eventually named as pitching prospect Kevin Comer.

Houston assigned Musgrove to the Greeneville Astros, where he went 0–1 with a 7.00 ERA in four games and nine innings.

He missed two months of the 2012 season due to a strained rotator cuff, and spent the majority of the 2013 season on the sidelines with a sprained ulnar collateral ligament.

An injury to his sternoclavicular joint continued to bother Musgrove during his time with the ValleyCats, and he made only a handful of appearances.

In the 77 innings that he did pitch, Musgrove posted a 7–1 record with a 2.81 ERA and 67 strikeouts, as well as 0.96 walks plus hits per innings pitched (WHIP).

He spent the entirety of the 2013 season with the Gulf Coast League Astros, going 1–3 with a 4.41 ERA in 32 2⁄3 innings and 11 games.

There, his minor league career faltered due to a series of injuries, and he did not advance past the Rookie League until 2014.

A series of injuries throughout his minor league career kept Musgrove from breaking out of the Rookie Leagues until 2014, when he was assigned to the Class A Short Season Tri-City ValleyCats.

He began to rise through the Astros' farm system in 2015, and made his major league debut the following year.

Musgrove started the 2015 season with the Class A Quad Cities River Bandits, with whom he posted a 4–1 record and a 0.70 ERA in five games.

He received two promotions that season: first, in May, to the High-A Lancaster JetHawks, and then again in June to the Double A Corpus Christi Hooks.

Musgrove went 12–1 for the season across all three teams, with a 1.88 ERA and 99 strikeouts in 100 2⁄3 innings.

In 2017, Musgrove was part of the World Series-winning Astros team.

That offseason, Musgrove was part of another massive trade between the Astros and the Pirates.

He spent two years there before being traded to his hometown Padres.

On April 9, 2021, Musgrove pitched the first no-hitter in the Padres' 52-year franchise history.